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thatgirl4815 · 7 months

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hi elle! first of all, i loooove your analyses and i've been checking your blog religiously after ep7 so i can calm down about the shitshow that is raymew...

now that i'm calmer, i have a few thoughts as a film major with a screenwriting obsession: according to one of the most well-known and accepted versions of the three-act narrative structure, we can say that the thatcar.mp3 blowing up was the halfway point of the story (ep6 of 12) where shit starts hitting the fan for real.

and the fallout of it is raymew: the false victory/defeat that usually occurs before we build up the actual climax. which will probably blow up in 11 because this is a thai bl and spill into 12 bc of what first said abt khao's intense scene in 12. and also you can't just have a whole-hour ep as an epilogue, especially in a series as messy (affectionate) as this.

i'm kinda done theorizing plotlines bc raymew fucking blindsided me, i didn't think they would actually go there. but looking at it as a false defeat (for sand and top) and a false victory (for ray and mew) it makes such perfect sense that as upset as i still am, i'm also kinda amazed at how brilliant the writers were for this...

so i have no idea what the actual climax is going to be, or how we'll get there, but i'm pretty confident about a sandray endgame from a narrative standpoint. i don't think that endgame is gonna be particularly healthy or happy, but i think it's gonna be pretty hopeful, if still somewhat ambigious.

(also on that note: i kinda love that jojo et al. are using the fixed pair concept to move the narrative along without spending a lot of time establishing the ships in the series (as angry as i am about the lack of sandray scenes lately...). we know that forcebook (topmew) and firstkhao (sandray) are likely ending up together, so they can introduce as much mess as they can into the story without fucking them up for good. i think it's a pretty genius way of subverting but also honoring the genre tropes we've come to know and love.

anyway, i'm done now klsdmgk keep up the brilliant work!!!

Hi Fen! That is so sweet of you! Honestly made my day. I’m trying to stay hopeful, mostly because so many people in the fandom seem to be in a very hopeless state right now over SandRay, but I still firmly believe it can work out between them. The way forward is rocky, but there is a way forward nonetheless.

I know Thai BLs have a tendency to let shit hit the fan in Ep11 and then clean it up in Ep12, and while I also fully expect that to be the case here, I hope that doesn’t mean they’ll rush through the resolution. I mean I would take an hour-long episode of SandRay: Adventures in Chiang Mai, but realistically I don’t think we’ll see much future stuff.

I’m thinking the climax for each couple will be much more personal—as in, within the pairs themselves rather than outside of them. So for SandRay this could be Ray’s addiction and commitment issues, etc. (It could have to do with Sand’s ex, but I think the bulk of that conflict will pass before Ep12). For TopMew, this could be about trust, with Top possibly making some grand gesture to win Mew back over, or Top demonstrating his love for Mew by saving Mew from himself (similar to next ep?)? For BostonNick, it could be Boston realizing his feelings for Nick and trying to win him back over, only to realize that Nick helped Mew get the sex tapes from Gap? Or that Nick really has moved on. Idk, I’m just brainstorming at this point, because yeah, after RayMew happened, I genuinely have no idea what to expect.

Side note, but I have a hunch Khao’s best scene in Ep12 is some sort of a mental breakdown? Maybe something similar to what we saw in Ep4. It’s got to be highly emotional to compete with the funeral scene in MLC. Maybe it’s Ray confronting his mother’s death again, but this time it’s Sand who pulls him out of his despair? Who knows.

Interesting point about how Jojo is using the established pairs…I really hope it is the case that FK and FB’s pairings make it out alive and all of this RayMew stuff is just for dramatics and will soon pass. That is the one negative to watching shows as they air (aside from the grueling wait between eps): I wish I knew how the couples will turn out so I don’t get my hopes up for nothing.

Also, because I know this is a hard time for all of us, I wanna say that my DMs and Ask box are always open! If we’re going to suffer, at least we can all do it together lol. <3

#only friends #only friends the series #ofts #ask #only friends ask #sandray #raysand #sanray #raysan #TopMew #RayMew #BostonNick #only friends theories #only friends predictions #only friends episode 7

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casualavocados · 9 months

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THAI BL FAVORITES LIST TAG GAME

tagged by @feralmuskyscentedhoepran tysm vi!!!! 💕💝💓♥️💞

favorite bl: My School President - ultimate comfort musical, the most fun i've ever had watching anything, infinity/10, no notes

favorite pairing: tinngun

most underrated actor: satang kittiphop - i feel like he could really go places if he was given the room to soar ngl (msp ep9 told me so)

favorite character: Gun Guntapon Wongwhittaya

favorite side character: LI MING in moonlight chicken - what do you MEAN he was only a side character?!?!! main character of my heart. guts me every time he's on screen

favorite scene: excluding the entirety of msp because im biased towards it, have some mlc -

li ming's first confrontation with his mom followed immediately by uncle jim's "you're poor AND gay?"

and also the scene where li ming and jim talk about parental love

(and ofc every heartliming scene but particularly the ep4 water fight)

some other top favs include bad buddy's ep11 NOT a breakup scene, and both of the eclipse's "you're allowed to be weak, at least with me" scenes (as well as the entirety of te ep7)

favorite line: enter the eclipse political brainrot. what a SHOW, what a show.

"you are what you eat. what you take builds who you are."

and pretty much everything else aye says in this show but also this akk:

and "you have the right to follow your heart." / "i choose not to do it. that's my right too, isnt it?" BECAUSE OW 💔

most anticipated bl and why: only friends. no explanation needed. (but its because of the spiciness and the acting powerhouses and p'jojo's vision of messy mess)

healthiest relationship in a bl: tinngun

most toxic relationship in a bl: i know there are soooo many but i also know i havent watched them, godbless <3

guilty pleasure series: i feel like this could be any of them, just for different reasons

bonus! most underrated series: TRIAGE. if you're reading this. WATCH TRIAGE.

tagging: @guntapon @grapejuicegay @milkpansa @oswlld

#tagged #me writing this: i have to give answers other than msp i hAVE TO GIVE ANSWERS OTHER THAN MSP #the way fourth came out of nowhere and his only two characters rocketed to the top of my favs list That Fast #i havent recovered

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